Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

	Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The club in the 1890s. Photo by John S. Johnston
Location	Centre Island, New York
Coordinates	40°54′8″N 73°30′49″W / 40.90222°N 73.51361°WCoordinates: 40°54′8″N 73°30′49″W / 40.90222°N 73.51361°W
Built	1891
Architect	Gibson, Robert W.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference #	74001265 [2]
Added to NRHP	January 8, 1974

Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
	Burgee
Short name	SCYC
Founded	1871
Location	314 Yacht Club Rd., Centre Island, New York 11771
Website	www.seawanhaka.org

Cutter Shona raced in the Corinthian Yacht Club, New York

The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club is one of the oldest yacht clubs in the Western Hemisphere,^[1] located in Centre Island, New York, with access to Long Island Sound.

History

The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club was founded (as the "Seawanhaka Yacht Club") in September 1871 aboard the sloop Glance, anchored off Centre Island. Glance's captain, William L. Swan, was elected Seawanhaka’s first Commodore. For many years, club meetings were held aboard this flagship.

Clubhouses

In 1881, the club leased space on Centre Island, and the word "Corinthian" was incorporated into the club’s name. In 1887 the organization leased a club house in Manhattan. Finally, in 1891-1892, the club returned to Centre Island, where a new club house was opened, and the club merged with the Oyster Bay Yacht Club.

Recognizing its important history, the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[3]

Commodores

William L. Swan
Elias Cornelius Benedict (1834–1920) ^[4]
Hugh Jones
Willets Meyers

Junior Club

Seawanhaka Corinthian Jr. Yacht club was honored with The Captain Joe Prosser Award at the 2017 US Sailing Awards ceremony.

Seawanhaka Rule

In 1882, the club adopted a rating rule that would govern all its races:

$Rating={\frac {Load\ Waterline\ Length+{\sqrt {Sail\ Area}}}{2}}$

Simply known as the "Seawanhaka Rule", it served as a rating for all eastern seaboard races from 1887 onwards, including the America's Cup from 1893 to 1903. The Load Waterline Length was usually placed under a class limit, where any amount beyond the limit was counted double. In the 1893 America's Cup the limit was set at 85ft, so the Load Waterline Length of a 86ft yacht would have counted as 87ft.

References

↑ "About the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club," Official site. Accessed Mar. 26, 2013.
↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ National Register of Historic Places, listed January 8, 1974.
↑ "E. C. Benedict Dies in his 87th Year. Was Sixty-four Years in Wall St. and One of the World's Leading Yachtsmen. Loved Long Cruises in Strange Waters. Once Shipwrecked. Was Cleveland's Friend". New York Times. November 24, 1920. Retrieved 2009-02-03. E.C. Benedict, banker and yachtsman, died last night in his eighty-seventh year at his home, Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Benedict had been ill for more than a year, and his end came quietly from a complication of diseases incident to old age, shortly before 9 o'clock.

References and external links

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[1] "About the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club," Official site. Accessed Mar. 26, 2013.

[nris-2] National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

[3] National Register of Historic Places, listed January 8, 1974.

[obit-4] "E. C. Benedict Dies in his 87th Year. Was Sixty-four Years in Wall St. and One of the World's Leading Yachtsmen. Loved Long Cruises in Strange Waters. Once Shipwrecked. Was Cleveland's Friend". New York Times. November 24, 1920. Retrieved 2009-02-03. E.C. Benedict, banker and yachtsman, died last night in his eighty-seventh year at his home, Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Benedict had been ill for more than a year, and his end came quietly from a complication of diseases incident to old age, shortly before 9 o'clock.